Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. The Telephone Book Alice is a young lady in the Big Apple whose libido is constantly on the lookout for the next arousing adventure, and she finds it when an obscene caller targets her for an erotic tongue-lashing. She becomes obsessed with finding the man behind the voice and sets out on a journey that brings her in contact with some truly eccentric characters and ultimately in touch with herself. This 1971 film was apparently thought lost for some time to the point that most people have probably never heard of it before. Vinegar Syndrome is still a very young label (this is only their seventh release), but they’ve more than proven their worth here by resurrecting it onto blu-ray. While described as an erotic cult classic I found the movie to actually be surprisingly...
- 5/6/2013
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Game shows owe much of their success to their predictability. When turning on Jeopardy! each night or spending a Saturday morning watching the classics on the Game Show Network, one knows exactly what to expect: some kind of gimmick, a big winner.
A show with a winning formula can be on the air for decades, and all that really changes are the hairstyles. Still, it’s the moments that take viewers (and, often, those involved) completely off-guard that can immortalize a show.
From big wins to host flubs to plain old dumb answers, we now explore these unexpected gems:
10. Match Game- Sammy the Songwriter
A decade before Pat Sajak and Vanna White went for cheap margaritas on their meal breaks, Match Game viewers were often left wondering what exactly Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly were sipping from their mugs. There are countless examples of host Gene Rayburn, and his panel of B-list celebrities,...
A show with a winning formula can be on the air for decades, and all that really changes are the hairstyles. Still, it’s the moments that take viewers (and, often, those involved) completely off-guard that can immortalize a show.
From big wins to host flubs to plain old dumb answers, we now explore these unexpected gems:
10. Match Game- Sammy the Songwriter
A decade before Pat Sajak and Vanna White went for cheap margaritas on their meal breaks, Match Game viewers were often left wondering what exactly Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly were sipping from their mugs. There are countless examples of host Gene Rayburn, and his panel of B-list celebrities,...
- 4/27/2013
- by Sienna Golden Malik
- Obsessed with Film
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